Year: 2010

Mitch McConnell’s Part Of The Problem In The Senate, Not Part Of The Solution

Posted on by John Hawkins

Does the Republican Party get it? Do they understand that business as usual isn’t good enough anymore? Do they realize that they have to start walking the talk now? Some of them do and some of them don’t. Unfortunately, some of the ones that don’t are in the GOP’s leadership in the Senate. One of […]

 

Republican TV Shows Vs. Democrat TV Shows Vs. John Hawkins’ TV Shows

Posted on by John Hawkins

Over at Townhall, they posted the results of a fascinating study that showed Republicans and Democrats have very different tastes when it comes to TV shows: Know what really stood out the most for me? The fact that I don’t regularly watch ANYTHING on either list. So, what do I regularly watch? Here’s the list, […]

 

V for Vendetta Hacker Strikes at Washington State University

Posted on by Donald Douglas

Cross-posted from American Power. ***** At Wired: And at Chronicle of Higher Education: In V for Vendetta, the protagonist V is a revolutionary fighting a fascist British regime in a dystopian future. V broadcasts a video message calling the British public to action on November 5 in honor of Guy Fawkes’s 1605 attempt to blow […]

 

In honor of Veteran’s Day — thoughts about redemption

Posted on by Bookworm

Since I was a child, I’ve enjoyed a very specific type of book or movie, of the kind that I call the “Getting it Right” genre. Getting it Right entertainment involves a protagonist who is making big mistakes, and who figures out how to — yes — get it right. The moral trajectory of failure […]

 

Call to Investigate Google Ties to Obama Administration

Posted on by Dave Blount

In case you’re looking for yet another reason not to trust the leftist ideologues running Google: The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), a group that advocates for a smaller and more ethical government, wrote to leaders of the House Oversight Committee this month urging them to investigate a major privacy breach by Google. It […]

 

White House Used Fraud to Suppress Gulf Drilling

Posted on by Dave Blount

The Obamination Administration was willing to stoop to new depths to keep its “boot on the neck” of the oil industry that is so crucial to the economy of Gulf states and America in general: The Interior Department’s inspector general says the White House edited a drilling safety report in a way that made it […]

 

Minimum Wage-Pushing Democrats Don’t Pay Congressional Interns

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Hypocrisy, they name is Democrat. Michigan’s Mackinac Center for Public Policy has laid bare another example of the hypocrisy of Congressional Democrats. In this case while those representatives that are all hot and bothered to push an ever rising minimum wage law are making noise about how inequities exist in the workplace, these same congressmen […]

 

Secret Ballot Protection Wins Big in Four States

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Is card check dead? Not completely, but if the recent votes on various state ballot initiatives of four states is any indication it sure seems to be on its last legs. Little noticed by the Old Media, the ballot initiatives of these four states is an important bellwether of how little support Big Labor’s favorite […]

 

BDS Lives: Critics Plan to Move Bush Memoir to ‘Crime’ Section in Bookstores

Posted on by Donald Douglas

Cross-posted from American Power. ***** At CBS News: When Tony Blair released his memoir earlier this year, a facebook page was created calling for critics of the former prime minister to “Subversively move Tony Blair’s memoirs to the crime section in book shops.” At last count, the Facebook group had more than 14,000 members. The […]

 

Say, About That “Bush Wouldn’t Vote For Or Endorse McCain” Meme….

Posted on by William Teach

It’s pretty much mule fritters Former President George W. Bush is denying a report that he once said he would have endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 if the Democrat had asked. “This is ridiculous and untrue,” Bush spokesman David Sherzer told POLITICO. “President Bush proudly supported John McCain in the election and voted for him.” […]

 

Another Reminder: ACORN Isn’t Dead

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The New York Post reminds us of an important fact: ACORN isn’t dead. It is merely attempting to morph into a new group with a different name in order to shed its ruined reputation. It has no intention, though, of disappearing entirely like it should. I’ve also mentioned before that this assumption that the Association […]

 

Oh, Snap! Obama Officials Walk Back 2011 Afghanistan Exit Date

Posted on by William Teach

They are really unhappy about this in Liberal World, but, they should have known that the majority of Obama promises all come with an expiration date The Obama administration has decided to begin publicly walking away from what it once touted as key deadlines in the war in Afghanistan in an effort to de-emphasize President […]

 

Kanye West: On Second Thought, Bush Doesn’t Hate Black People

Posted on by John Hawkins

While President Bush has been making the rounds to promote his new book, he has made it known that he was extremely offended by Kanye West’s suggestion that he was a racist because of the response to Katrina: “He called me a racist,” Bush tells reporter Matt Lauer. “And I didn’t appreciate it then. I […]

 

Jim DeMint Was Right: “You Can’t Be A Fiscal Conservative And Not Be A Social Conservative” — At Least In The Senate

Posted on by John Hawkins

You can’t be a fiscal conservative and not be a social conservative. —Jim DeMint In the wilds of the Internet, it’s not unusual to find Libertarians who are diehards about fiscal conservatism, but tend to be socially liberal. They wouldn’t call themselves socially liberal, of course — but they are. For example, if you favor […]

 

Senator Kirk Already on Track to Vote Against GOP Interests

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I said it during the primary, Mark Kirk is a 45 percenter. His record in the House pretty much shows that he will only vote with Republicans 45 percent of the time if left to his druthers. True to my worst fears, Kirk seems to be right on track with my predictions. The man hasn’t […]

 

Ted Rall Calls for Armed Socialist Revolution

Posted on by Dave Blount

Enraged at the results of the 2010 election, some leftists are no longer willing to wait quietly through the Gramscian/Fabian process of incremental totalitarianism. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell freely admits he’s a socialist. Tim Wise openly boasts of the progressive plan to obliterate America through demographics. Now Ted Rall — a fixture in the mainstream media […]

 

Transsexual Changes Back, Denounces Sex Change Operations

Posted on by Dave Blount

Finally, a shaft of reason falls on the grotesque if politically correct sex change phenomenon: A man who underwent sex change surgery to look like a woman — then changed back — says the NHS [British National Health Service] should halt all sex change operations. Charles Kane, who spent £100,000 on operations to make him […]

 

Obama’s Disastrous Visit to India

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

President Barack Obama’s now concluding trip to India seems to have turned out to be a failed or at the very least unhelpful effort. His false starts, unhelpful comments and bad policy moves mark this visit as a bit of a mess. Obama made multiple gaffes not only for India but for his own party […]

 

Al Gore’s Climate Exchange Scheme Utterly Fails… Media Ignores It All

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Al Gore’s much ballyhooed Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) has recently announced that it will no longer be engaging in carbon trading, an activity that was the sole purpose that it was created. This is an utter failure of purpose in global warming hysteria yet the Old Media is almost completely silent on this colossal failure. […]

 

Nanny State Republican Upton Wants House Energy Committee Chair?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Light bulb banning Republican Fred Upton (R, Mich) is angling to become the new GOP chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee as the House begins to look to adjusting to reflect the Republican’s tidal wave election. Upton is a perfect example of the sort of representative that the new GOP congress needs to […]

 

Tuesday Funny: So, How’s That Joe Wilson/Valerie Plame Movie Doing?

Posted on by William Teach

The answer would be: beyond dismal. This bit of fanciful fluff, which attempts to paint Valerie Wilson as just a normal mom before 9am, to some sort of international spy flying around the world putting out fires, being involved in firefights, like James Bond, during the day, opened Friday, November 5th, and, pulled in a […]

 

Republican Who Co-Authored Light Bulb Law Wants Energy Chair

Posted on by William Teach

Here’s a test for the GOP: do they let this guy have the chairmanship? He has some really good points and some really bad points, yet, we have this little bit of Big Government climate alarmism Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) may have some explaining to do to fellow GOP colleagues as he seeks the chairmanship […]

 

The Real World Impact Of One Regulation: 14 Million Plus Hours

Posted on by John Hawkins

Liberals have never met a regulation that they don’t like — well, unless it impacts trial lawyers, unions or some other special interest group that jerks them around like puppets. Whenever conservatives note that regulations kill jobs and suggest that the government tread lightly, we hear howls of outrage from the Left. Yet in the […]

 

Manners Matter: Don’t Excuse Your Child’s Bad Behavior In Public

Posted on by John Hawkins

Courtesy of Red Eye comes this seemingly minor story about flatulence, 11-year-old Christian Summers thinks playing video games is fun. According to his school bus driver, he also thinks passing gas is fun. She didn’t find his flatulence so funny. …For letting it rip on the ride home, Christian was slapped with an hour of […]

 

7 Lame Liberal Excuses For The 2010 Election Shellacking

Posted on by John Hawkins

“Mm, your tears are so yummy and sweet! Oh, the tears of unfathomable sadness! My-yummy!” — Cartman, South Park Admittedly, it has been a lot of fun to watch the wailing and gnashing of teeth on the Left after the savage beating they received on election day. However, it’s more than a little disturbing that […]

 

Maxine Waters Caught in Brand New Scandal

Posted on by Jeff Dunetz

Maxine Waters may be facing new ethics charges, at the very least she has gotten involved with something that smell a bit on the “crooked side. According to a report in the Washington Times, a powerful lobbying form paid Waters’ banker husband $15,000 in “consulting fees” at the very same time Ms Waters:  co-sponsored a […]

 

Bad News for Liberals Leftists May Be Good News for a Liberal Leftist Magazine

Posted on by Donald Douglas

Cross-posted from American Power. ***** I’m bothered, increasingly, by the overwhelming tendency of the major actors and institutions of the political regime to treat those on the far left of the ideological spectrum as “liberals.” Leftists are not liberal. They’re anti-liberal. But one of the great achievements of radical left-wing politics in the second half […]